January 2007
4 posts
3 tags
Another Year Over
… and what have you done? You’ve had a busy year, though it really doesn’t seem like you did that much. You: started the year off with a rant against copy protected cds March * finished up your first “real job”, and upon leaving Wellington actually had people show up for a thank god he’s leaving party April * saw The Rolling Stones in concert *...
Jan 1st
December 2006
7 posts
2 tags
Merry Christmas and Happy Festivus
You’d just like to take a moment to thank the most important person in this whole writing for the internet thing: your readers. May their Christmas be merry, the Fetivus happy, and any other holiday they might wish to celebrate at this time of year. You won’t be doing much this year: you have a small tree with some presents, a couple of seasons of Black Adder, Pulse, a handful of...
Dec 24th
2 tags
Time Away
You’ve been back for a day or so now from a trip to San Francisco, where you spent 5 days with your parents and stayed in your own hotel room for the first time in a good number of years. (You usually opt for hostels or motels, mostly because you’d rather spend your money on things that matter. Like food, and alcohol. The important things.) You flew Alaska Air, which you’d...
Dec 22nd
5 tags
PlayStation 3, first impressions
You’re not going to go in depth yet - you want to really get to know the system first, and you’d also like to get some component cables so you can really gauge the graphics. You have the 20GB model, because let’s face it: you take what you can get. The smaller hard drive and lack of card readers doesn’t worry you, as you have a shiny 2GB USB stick anyway. The lack of wifi...
Dec 13th
3 tags
Apple finally loves NZ?
You just saw the PR on Apple’s site, and were absolutely delighted to see that Apple have finally made Apple NZ look like a real Apple site (as in, actually on apple.com, not Renaissance servers) and launched iTunes NZ and a real online Apple Store that is cheaper than MagnumMac. There’s also a “Hello, New Zealand” promo going on where you can win stuff, except your...
Dec 5th
4 tags
IPv6 connected, again
Some time ago now, you forget just how long, you managed to persuade Donald to help you setup IPv6 on your debian based firewall. You did this and was pleased, while it worked. Thanks to static routing on the cable network you were then able to use this to talk between networks. Then one day the router rebooted and you never made the IPv6 tunnel work again. So you gave up and thought “one...
Dec 4th
3 tags
Parallels beta 3036
So yesterday the nice people at Parallels released a new beta build for Mac - build 3036. They’ve seen fit to drop some really nice new features, but you’re only going to touch on two of them. Coherence Hides the windows desktop so it looks like things are mingling in with your Mac apps. It’s great for when you’re using just one app (ie. IE). Parallels Transporter ...
Dec 2nd